The vanishing allure of doing business in China
This article originally appeared in The Economist. It is nothing new for foreign firms to endure shakedowns by the Chinese Communist Party. As far back as revolutionary times, Chairman Mao’s victorious troops did not directly confiscate foreign-owned assets as their Bolshevik forerunners had done in Russia. Instead, they wore them down with higher taxes and […]
Security Experts Call for Ban on AI Transfers to China
U.S. tech companies continue to build artificial intelligence (AI) research labs in mainland China, despite the ability of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) to co-opt any research they do for its own purposes, military and otherwise, experts warn. The experts believe that the only way to ensure a halt in the growth of the CCP’s AI capabilities […]
Turning from Afghanistan, the US sets focus on China
After two decades of focus on Afghanistan, the United States’ withdrawal this week allows the country to shift its concentration to the east, where superpower rival China is now the number-one priority. In an indication of Washington’s strategic turn, Vice President Kamala Harris was in Southeast Asia last week even as the US pullout from Afghanistan moved into its turbulent final days, hoping […]
China has declared information warfare against America — Biden must respond vigorously
Originally posted at The Hill. China has taken great umbrage as the Biden administration continues its predecessor’s pushback against Beijing’s decades of barely-disguised aggression and significantly expands outreach to allies and security partners. After the visits by Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga of Japan and President Moon Jae-in of South Korea, Biden’s third major outreach effort was directed toward America’s […]
U.S. Must Prepare for Great-Power Competition | National Review
In the face of a rising threat from China and Russia, the U.S. must revive its defense capabilities and its patriotic unity. Originally posted at National Review. For almost five years now, the U.S. government, the think-tank community, and academics working in the field of international relations have been refocusing on the resurgence of great-power competition. […]
China’s Damaging Influence and Exploitation of U.S. Colleges and Universities
Originally published by The Heritage Foundation. Americans are increasingly wary of Chinese Communist Party influence on U.S. universities—and rightly so. Despite the Ivory Tower’s leftward slant, universities remain a wellspring of American scientific, technical, and engineering research and innovation. China’s desire to tap that well is no secret. Its campus-based Confucius Institutes have received much attention of late, but that is […]
How China is remaking the world in its vision
This article original appeared in The Conversation. It is the year 2049. China is celebrating having reached its second centenary goal – to become a “prosperous, powerful, democratic, civilised and harmonious socialist modernised country” by the 100th anniversary of the people’s republic. Its economy is three times the size of the United States’, as the […]
Chinese Sociologist: We’ll Soon Surpass U.S., ‘U.S. Will Not Survive,’ We’ll ‘Drive U.S. To Its Death’
From The Daily Wire A Chinese sociologist recently delivered marks at a forum reportedly in Shenzhen where he declared that it was only a matter of time before China overtakes the United States and effectively puts an end to it. The remarks from Dr. Li Yi were reported by MEMRI TV, a research organization that […]
State Department: Covert, Coercive, and Corrupting: Countering the Chinese Communist Party’s Malign Influence in Free Societies
The following is a selection from the remarks made by David Stilwell, Assistant Secretary, Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs. You can read the full transcript at the Department of State website. Introduction Good afternoon. Thank you to the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and the Asia Society for inviting me. Thank you to organizers Orville […]
Communist China and the Free World’s Future
U.S. Secretary of State Michael R. Pompeo speaking at the Nixon Presidential Library and Museum in Yorba Linda, California, July 2020. TRANSCRIPT: GOVERNOR WILSON: Well, thank you very much, Chris. Most generous. I’m not sure your grandfather would have recognized me. I have the great pleasure – in addition to welcoming all of you to the […]